All,
So a friend of mine is planning a family and haven’t gotten pregnant yet. Her gynac said they it may happen right away or may take even a year to conceive. Well, i don’t really understand this.
If a fertile man and woman are having frequent sex, what really leads to not getting pregnant?
In: Biology
Timing is one of the most major issues. Even when a woman is ovulating, there is no guarantee that an ovum will be released during a time of coitus. And even when sperm does meet ovum, again, most sperm produced are considered “imperfect” and DNA fragmentation in sperm cells is now being considered one of the major causes for miscarriage. That said, one’s diet and lifestyle can impact the quality of sperm in men and ovum in women.
Age, however, seems to be one of the most major factors. While men will continue to produce sperm cells throughout their lives, quality, and potentially quantity, will drop as a man gets older. Women do NOT produce new ovum-women are born with ~250,000 or so ovum within their ovaries, and as a woman ages, the DNA within the ovum will begin to deteriorate, and mistakes like copied chromosomes are more likely to occur, which is why that women over the age of 35 will have a 1 in 300 chance of a fetus developing Down’s Syndrome. It really is ultimately, though, just down to luck of educated guesses for when the woman in the relationship is at her most likely stage of conception.
That said, I would doubt most men who want to have a child with their partner would have any major objections to trying over and over.
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